In a display of how overly focused some of us are on certain aspects of social media, there’s now a story out there coming from a LA Times blog: Digg bury brigade: 28 negative McCain stories buried in the past 30 days.
Several had received “more than 700 Diggs” and all had received at least 180 Diggs.
700? 185? Please. Maybe on Digg that’s something, but in the world of politics, 700 votes are probably less than the average precinct. That’s less than two people per Congressional district.
Jed Lewison of The Jed Report thinks it’s organized. It probably is. But so is Open Left’s effort to Googlebomb John McCain. The horrors!!
Such is the nature of politics and it’s intersection with the Internet. This is 2008.
But back to the amount of Diggs. Those numbers are so small in the overall scope of things that I’m beginning to think that there’s about maybe 10,000 insiders or so who will follow stuff like this religiously, forgetting that this presidential election may witness 120,000,000 voters casting their ballots on Election Day.
700? Bah.
4 Comments » Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Jonathan Trenn
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